{"id":4181,"date":"2016-03-21T02:23:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T09:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2016-06-19T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:23:37","slug":"xian-the-breathtaking-terracotta-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/xian-the-breathtaking-terracotta-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Xian: The Breathtaking Terracotta Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tomb<\/a>
Tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They stand in silence, sentinels for China’s\u00a0Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 BC – 210 BCE) <\/a>,\u00a0the visionary ruler who demanded this ghost army of 10,000 to guard his tomb (and also demanded the expansion and unification of the fragmented Great Wall – making it what it continues to be today.)<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a special army indeed. Singular figures each, their faces unique. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After 2,200 years, in 1974, farmers digging a well stumbled upon them — \u00a0just a few shards suggesting more. The village elder understood\u00a0what might be,\u00a0gathered the random pieces in his home, and called the experts. They found ten thousand soldiers, discovered through a leader’s instincts and a small farming village’s need for more water.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It’s not possible to describe passing\u00a0through a wide passageway and coming upon these:<\/div>\n
\n
\"IMG_6440\"<\/a>
Closeup of a portion of a single line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"IMG_6487\"<\/a>
A kneeling archer; his hands are placed to hold a crossbow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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A high-ranking general whose single raised finger suggests that he may be second only to the Emperor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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High-ranking general<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"little<\/a>
Look at the bottom right: even little ones are not immune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This entire trip is exploding\u00a0my brain in the best possible way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They stand in silence, sentinels for China’s\u00a0Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 BC – 210 BCE) ,\u00a0the visionary ruler who demanded this ghost army of 10,000 to guard his tomb (and also demanded the expansion and unification of the fragmented Great Wall – making it what it continues to be today.) It is a special army … Continue reading Xian: The Breathtaking Terracotta Warriors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2877,6,78],"tags":[2812,2892,3757,3884,3768,3765,3767,3766],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-culture","category-travel","tag-microblogmonday","tag-microblogmondays","tag-china","tag-culture-book","tag-emperor-qin-shi-huang","tag-terracotta-army","tag-terracotta-warriors","tag-xian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-15r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}